Some girls simply are not coordinated enough to be a member of this elite troupe. Although we know you looked forward to wearing the cute kilt and argyle kneesocks, the crisp white dress shirt and the tasseled shoes, we regret to inform you that you did not make the cut into the second round of auditions. Thank you for trying out to be a Highland Dancer. Sorry to say no! Please do try out for one of the rebound-girlfriend positions in the future. P.S.: Though your brother is one of the star players, we could not take this familial relationship into account. This selfless act will help the team members learn the art of ignoring lovesick girls. This letter is to inform you that you have not been chosen for one of the coveted positions, but we do invite you to continue hanging around the lockers as if you belong there. As you can imagine, we have received hundreds of similar requests and so cannot possibly respond personally to every one. Thank you for your application to be the girlfriend of one of our star basketball players. The Boys’ Council of Patrick Henry Junior High Watching others have a good time is excellent preparation for the roles you will play in the future.
#TO INFORM YOU FREE#
Do feel free to attend on your own, perhaps with another rejectee, and stand awkwardly in a corner with a glass of warm punch in your sweaty hand. The volume of requests we receive makes individual feedback impossible, but please know that you were given careful consideration. We regret to inform you that no suitable match has been found to accompany you to the school dance. We are pleased to offer you remedial training in the arts, but we cannot accept your “drawing” for display. In fact, they look like nothing at all, and the pleasure and pride you take in the work are not enough to redeem it. But your smudges look nothing like a tree. We appreciate your efforts, especially the way you sat patiently on the sidewalk, gazing at that tree for an hour before setting pen to paper, and the many quick strokes of charcoal you executed with enthusiasm. Thank you for your attempt to draw a tree. Any resemblance to the author’s life and the people she has known is purely intentional. In 2019, it was ranked by Slate as one of the 50 best nonfiction books of the past 25 years.The following letters, though never written, are based on real events. The book was featured as one of the first Brotherhood 2.0 book club books. In essence, Gourevitch's story reduces the butchery to the tale of bad guys and good guys, innocent victims and avatars of hate. The absence of attention to the history of the country creates a portrait of a genocide that is insensitive to the complexity of the circumstances. It is one thing to describe the horror, another to explain the motivations that occasioned the carnage. What is missing from Gourevitch's account is the how and why of the killings. Polk Award for Foreign Reporting.Īfricanist René Lemarchand criticizes the book: This book won numerous awards, including the 1998 National Book Critics Circle award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award and the George K. The book not only explains the genocide's peak in 1994, but the history of Rwanda leading up to the major events. Ntakirutimana was eventually convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Gourevitch accused Ntakirutimana of aiding the killings that happened in the complex the next day.
The title comes from an April 15, 1994, letter written to Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's operations in western Rwanda, by seven Adventist pastors who had taken refuge with other Tutsis in an Adventist hospital in the locality of Mugonero in Kibuye prefecture.
Gourevitch retells survivors' stories, and reflects on the meaning of the genocide. The book describes Gourevitch's travels in Rwanda after the Rwandan genocide, in which he interviews survivors and gathers information.
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